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EDWARD GEORGE LANE 1894 -  

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Edward was one of many IBSA COs from North London. IBSA, The International Bible Student’s Association (which would become the Jehovah's Witnesses) were one of the groups that produced a large number of Conscientious Objectors. IBSA COs believed that their first and only allegiance was to God, rather than to any nation or government, and so often refused to be conscripted to fight against their conscience. Edward was an “Alternativist” CO as he accepted alternative service with the army and joined the Non-Combatant Corps. He worked in the 5th Eastern Company of the NCC, formally within the army but protected from any assigned work involving the use or carrying of weaponry. He would be one of the very last Conscientious Objectors to leave the army, demobilised on the 13th of January 1920.

 

 

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Born: 1894
Died:
Address: 203 Isledon Road, Islington, London
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Occupation: Railway Clerk
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